exploding-heads.com have recently announced their intention to move to Nostr. Their plan is to leave Lemmy behind entirely, with exploding-heads.com poised to go offline on August 31st 2023.
Original announcement: https://exploding-heads.com/post/765290 Lemdit link: https://lemdit.com/post/735021
According to their admin:
I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger.
Meanwhile a better alternative has sprung up in the form of Nostr:
- it lets you own your own profile - if you move to another Nostr app or site, you still keep your content and followers
- it makes censorship very difficult
- it is not perfect, but is evolving for the better very quickly.
As a user you should not be at the mercy of instance operators who are
- petty tyrants, or
- benevolent dictators (who may turn tyrannical at any moment)
I do not feel I can alter the tyrannical direction Lemmy is heading in and I want to dedicate my time and resources to a better alternative.
Some users are questioning the transition to a micro-blogging-style platform like Nostr and the effect this will have on existing Lemmy communities.
About exploding-heads.com
exploding-heads.com is one of the larger Lemmy instances, with ~7.4k registered users.
They are a right-leaning instance which is centered around free speech:
Use humor and facts to hold the ruling class accountable
We are a fun loving community of free people tired of propaganda fed to us government, media, big tech, crony capitalists, and self anointed elites.
exploding-heads.com has received a largely hostile reception from other large Lemmy instances, many of which have chosen to defederate from them.
The cencorship part doesn't make sense since they can pretty much do whatever they want in their instance. They can probably federate with other bigotted instances.
My guess is that they ran out of money for hosting.